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JAY ELECTRONICA | Act II: The Patents of Nobility --- FULL ALBUM w/ VISUALS

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Jay Electronica - Memories & Merlot (Act II: Patents Of Nobility)

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Jay Electronica’s shelved debut album has finally seen the light of day, stream Act II: The Patents of Nobility (the Turn) now!

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Jay Electronica drops Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) album...

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Jay Electronica drops Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) album...

https://t.co/49hxGW14zX 🤲🏿❤️🤲🏿 — J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A (@JayElectronica) October 5, 2020 On Monday, Jay Electronica surprisingly drops the official Just Blaze-collaborative album fans were waiting for on TIDAL. The reason why the word 'official' is used is because Sunday morning, t

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Jay Electronica Keeps Hip-Hop Heads on Their Heels

Almost every year, there is something about Jay Electronica. He recently popped up on Kanye West’s DONDA with a signature verse. Signature as it is. The performance met the expectation criteria many may have of the Nation of Islam bred rapper. With bars like “As sure as the DOJ confirmed Ezekiel's Wheel,“ it is obvious Elec is set in his school of thought and will never seize an opportunity to express it to the world.

At the top of the pandemic, in March 2020, Jay Electronica released his debut album A Written Testimony. A Written Testimony was a highly anticipated project and probably one of the longest anticipated in hip-hop history. “Finally!,” is the exclamation of an abundance of hip-hop heads who have patiently waited 13 years for the “Ghost of Soulja Slim” emcee. While the album aesthetically and lyrically lived up to the ample amount of expectations, there was one thing about this album that solidified its impact and that is the presence of Jay-Z.

The rap mogul did not appear on just one track. He is featured on eight tracks including “Fruits of the Spirit” and “A.P.I.D.T.A.” Jay is featured on enough tracks to prompt any listener to assume the album was a collaborative effort. A Written Testimony has not been deemed as a collaborative album like Hov’s mash-up with Kanye West, Watch the Throne, however, it convincingly sets the tone of a brotherly affinity. The album was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, giving birth to Elect’s first Grammy nomination.

Aside from A Written Testimony, Electronica has released two additional projects throughout his career. His 2007 debut mixtape, Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), and its leaked 2020 sequel, Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn). Of course, “Exhibit C” the 2009 Just Blaze produced single that refined the landscape hip-hop lyricist, is among six of Electronica’s career singles.

From homeless aspirant to a rap freak of nature, Jay Electronica’s movement in hip-hop has managed to create an eventful experience for observers. As the Coronavirus pandemic heads to a point of normalcy, hip-hop acts are finally heading back to the stage.

On Wednesday, September 15, Jay Electronica will be rocking the stage at Sony Hall in New York City with Harlem’s own Smoke DZA, GRIP, and Statik Selektah. The performance is poised to be an ideal affair for the extreme hip-hop purist. It also comes a day after the unanticipated Verzuz between Fat Joe and Ja Rule which will also take place in New York City. It is pretty obvious, without much effort, New York City is reminding the world of where real rap lives.

If you are in New York City and can follow the guidelines (must be vaccinated to attend), purchase a ticket for the show right over at Sony Hall’s website.

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“Medieval queens, who were among the greatest lords in England, of course also owned deer parks and forests – and they, too, altered the ‘ecological signature’ of their landscapes. For example the park of Kings Langley (Hertfordshire), which was made for Eleanor of Castile in 1276, was stocked with 30 fallow does from her Hampshire estate at Odiham, as well as five white roe-bucks and one white doe from the king’s forest of Cannock (Staffordshire), some 170km away. Aside from their purely aesthetic appeal, this importing of fauna associated with the primary signifiers of the nobility –hunting and heraldic display – is in line with Eleanor’s obvious concern to alter the external appearance of her castles and palaces more generally, for example through ornate gardening schemes which reflected the status of their occupant.

Surviving evidence shows that many late-medieval English queens went to great lengths to preserve the deer and other resources in their parklands, in that way linking parks directly with the question of lordly authority. Indeed the ways in which queens actually used their landscapes, including building work on their castles and palaces, is an aspect that deserves further study. This is particularly the case because high-status women have traditionally been discussed in historiography firmly behind closed doors in the ‘private sphere’.

In view of O’Keeffe’s observations (see above) it is worth pointing out that among queens’ traditional dower properties were many castles, some of which were the preferred residences of particular queens. Leeds Castle (Kent) was a favourite of Eleanor of Castile (d.1290); Marlborough Castle (Wiltshire) was beloved by Margaret of France, who died there in 1318; Isabella of France (d.1358) chose to spend her widowhood – and confinement, after the death in suspicious circumstances of her husband, Edward II – at Castle Rising (Norfolk), and Joan of Navarre (d.1437) favoured Devizes Castle (Wiltshire), as had many of her predecessors.

Moreover queens could be highly active regarding castles. In 1257 the patent rolls record that Eleanor of Provence (d.1291) had ordered the constable of Windsor Castle to hand over crossbows for the munition of Corfe Castle (Dorset), and she also arranged the delivery of weapons for Dover Castle while staying there, later in her consortship. On her widowhood in 1272, Windsor Castle and its forest were committed to her so that she answer at the Exchequer [for it] in the same manner as Nicholas de Yatingdene, late constable of that castle, deceased, used to answer. Her daughter in law, Margaret of France, who will appear frequently in this paper, apparently fought hard c.1305 to be assigned, as was traditional, the Forest of Savernake in Wiltshire alongside her castle of Marlborough, as her husband, Edward I, eventually granted it to her, saying that he had had no intention... that the forest, which is necessary for the frequent repairs of the castle... should be omitted.

Indeed one of Edward’s last acts in 1307 was an acceptance as though it had been of the king’s will, of takings by Margaret, the queen consort, of timber in the forests... and parks belonging to the castles, etc., granted to her for life, for the repair of the same, and of gifts by her of oaks [from them] to divers persons. Later, she was given license to grant oaks to whomsoever she will. Clearly Margaret was aware of the symbiotic nature of the castle/forest relationship, and used gifts of forest resources to enhance her royal reputation through largesse, just as did kings.

Many royal forests were held by queens as part of their dower properties, over which they invariably exercised full seigneurial jurisdiction – Isabella of France’s right to appoint her own justices of the forest for the Forest of Essex, to hold forest courts there whenever she thought fit, and to receive all fines raised in them, for example, was confirmed in 1324. In the 13th century the queen’s forests included Savernake Forest in Wiltshire (along with Marlborough Castle), Gillingham Forest in Dorset, Bere Porchester (with Portchester Castle) in Hampshire, Feckenham Forest in Worcestershire, the Forest of Rockingham in Northamptonshire and the New Forest in Hampshire.

The forests were, of course, central to a queen’s revenues; before Edward I’s intervention resulted in a pardon, Margaret of France had been due a 2,000-mark fine for trespasses in the forest from John Lovel of Tichmarsh (Northamptonshire). Margaret’s grant of Rockingham Forest, including timber for repair of the manors of King’s Cliffe and Brigstock, is another illustrative example. It allowed her at all her visits there firewood for the expenses of her household, as much and as often as she likes, and also to have her game, as well in the said forests and woods as in the... parks [of]... the said manors, and take venison and have it taken by her people (implying that she was expected to hunt in person on occasion).

Queens are most often observed in the documents using forests to exercise their patronage through the granting of forest offices – although it is not always easy to do more than assume their direct influence behind the decisions made. For example in 1272 a servant of Eleanor of Provence, Richard Dyve, was given the wardenship of the Forest of Weybridge in Huntingdonshire with mandate to foresters, verderers, and other ministers of that forest to be intendant to him. This was presumably a reward for good service, which Eleanor must at least have approved.

Similarly queens could protect favoured servants by engineering their exemption from serving as foresters, regarders and verderers against their will, as was probably the case regarding Eleanor’s cook, Master Henry Lovel, in 1248. Eleanor of Provence’s hand is possibly more clearly observable in 1290, when pardons were issued by her son, Edward I, to the prioress of Westwood and others for trespasses of vert and venison in the Forest of Feckenham, over which Eleanor had had lordship while queen consort, but which was by this time in the hands of her daughter-in-law, Eleanor of Castile. The pardons were issued while the king was staying at Amesbury (Wiltshire), in the abbey of which his widowed mother had been living “as a humble nun of the order of Fontevrault” since 1286.

The involvement of queens regarding forests was in any case certainly not all passive, and their personal concern, and their own agency, can sometimes be observed more directly. A dispute over tenure in Gillingham Forest runs, in the Close Rolls, for around two years from June 1311. The complainants asserted that they had a right to the lands as tenants in chief, by service of keeping the forest and park. However Margaret of France argued that the lands were ancient demesne, held of her according to the custom of the manor, and that she ought to do... right according to the said custom. By December 1312 her stepson, Edward II, was complaining that ...the queen would not execute [his orders regarding the matter], alleging a reason for not doing so that the king deems insufficient.

Margaret was obviously attempting to exercise close control over her estate, and to exercise good lordship, the judgement of the king notwith-standing. She almost certainly wished to use the office(s) of forester and park-keeper to reward her own favoured servants, and her involvement, and the frequency with which she appears in this paper actively guarding her rights and asserting her agency, is noteworthy since studies of queens have found it hard to locate her voice by interrogating more traditional sources. Clearly a focus on landscape has the potential to uncover a different side of queenship.”

- Amanda Richardson, Beyond the Castle Gate

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